The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-06
Metropolitan B.ic-a-Brac.

Metropolitan Btic-a-Brac.
New YORK. Mail and Express.
The modern bird cage of bronzed wire makes
the old fashioned affair look exceedingly i'll by
comparison.
Although an owl has nothing to do with time,
you must have stuffed one perched up on top Of
your hall clock.
People are prejudiced against the hammered
silver finger bowls because one has said they
look like shavingcups.
Threc stuffed sparrows sitting on wirs make
clasp that holds q lot of telegraph blanks to
hang up in the library.
Wires in the drapery are taking the place Of
the hustle, which has such horrible fashion Of
getting out OF its place.
Already spring dress goods are seen in the
leading stores but those who buy early do not
always lead the fashions.
Scarfs on pictures are no longer the eenteel or
the fashionable thing. Read the answer In the
restaurants and bar-rooms.
Sllver-plated bonbon trays with tongs have
been introduced at the fashionable luncheon
parties with undoubted success
:, The veil comes to the chin now. and is dotted,
the style and the length being a revival Of q
fashion Of fully twenty years ago
tiny silver plated representation of cham
payne bottle has wick out of the cork holds
alcohol, and is called q cigarlighter.
large brass chicken, whose wings shelter an
inkstand and whose head conveniently goes to
I Among the very latest are entire black silk
costumes, thu wrap lined with fur, and the
whole outfit" trimmed with black fur
Sealskin has ceased to be an elegant or exclus-
i've FUR Everybody has it now, from the politi-
clans wife down to the poor "salesady."
Partisan theater bonnets are described assof
| white felt small, with ribbon ends sticking up
on top and black bird stuck in the middle.
1t does not take great deal of material to
| make the girl of the periods outdoor jacket
People from the country think she is economical.
Revolving cabinets for dainty china and glass
are new In dinine-room furniture. The hired
| girl has given 1t as her opinion that they are q
| nuisance.
There is one thing that cannot be successfully
initiated, I'D that is ''real old lace" Hence the
| JOY of the young women who have ''grandmas
| founces."
Some one who designs screen on which there
Is not a dyspeptic looking stork and impossible
grasses will deserve the thanks of the decorative
| community.
Many felines escape from the bag by reason Of
the illustrated advertisements In the papers and
| magazines of articles necessary to the human
| form divine.
Women have yet to learn that diamonds az
| large as hens eggs are not accepted in lieu Of
good manners and fair knowledge of Lindley
| Murray's book
An authority says the proper way to wear
veil just now is to have 1t well over the chin,
drawn up somewhat at each side and fastened
| very high at the back.
Do not experiment with patent mud -scrapers
for the front stoop. gentleman was caught in
one the other day and had to be liberated BY the
convulsed parlor maid.
Pedestals are now made expressly for the tall
| lamps seen in so many fashionable Railways, and
| this brings them high enough to shine on the
just as we'll as the unjust
Geranium green is new color that seems to
have found immediate favor. 1t Is SAID to be
Crying but nobody will care very much about
that SO long as it is fashionable.